Notes

gf was Alexander LEIGHTON (AFN: 181K-1X0) "thought to be a
descendant of the Scotch divine Alexander Leighton (cruelly
persecuted for his religious teachings)." "According to Rosa
Faulkner Yancey ("Lynchburg and It's Neighbors" Richmond, J W
Fergusson, 1935 p 330) Charles Yancey, the immediate ancestor of
the Yancey Family in Lynchburg" came to Virginia about the year
1674 with his wife, who was the granddaughter of Alexander
Leighton, the famous Scotch Divine, whose persecution was one of
the greatest scandals of the reign of Charles I. She was also a
niece of Robert Leighton, another famous churchman, who was
Bishop of Dublin and later Archbishop of Glasgow."